[Linganth] any ling anth work on McCarthyism out there

[Bonnie McElhinny]

I recommend:

Price, David H. Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.  It includes work on linguistic anthropologists Melville Jacobs and Swadesh.  Rich discussion of how marxist, feminist, anti-racist work, and certain work with indigenous nations, was interrupted by cold war dynamics, and has lingering effects on American anthro.

Monica Heller and I are also submitting a book ms this week, due out from U of Toronto press this fall.  It has a chapter on the Cold War era, and includes discussions of other linguists who were drummed out of the academy (DeFrancis, Schlauch), as well as those like Jacobson who were grilled by the FBI.  David Price kindly gave us Jakobson's FBI file, obtained through Freedom of Information Requests.

Note that Orwell, though now being celebrated, participated in Cold War dynamics as well, handing over the names of those he saw as suspiciously leftist including some gay men in the last month of his life.  We talk about this, too...

Bonnie

Tentative Table of contents:

Monica Heller and Bonnie McElhinny:  Language, Colonialism, Capitalism:  Towards a Critical History.


Chapter 6:  The Cold War:   Surveillance, Structuralism and Security
6.1  “Black Out”
6.2  Battles for Hearts and Minds
6.3  Internal Security:  The Investigation of Linguists During the McCarthy Period
6.4  Suspicious Words, Suspicious Minds
            6.4.1  The Prague Linguistics Circle
            6.4.2  Fear of the Translator
6.5 Infrastructure and Institutionalization:  Communication Studies, Area Studies, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
6.6 The New Search for Friction-Free International Communication:  Machine Translation and the Rise of Syntax
6.6.1 Rational and Universal Principles:  Late Structuralist Linguistics
6.6.2 Freedom, Creativity and Human Nature:  The Rise of Generative Linguistics
6.7  Nineteen Eighty-Four as a Weapon of the Cold War


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Bonnie McElhinny
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies Institute
University of Toronto

Associate Editor, Journal of Sociolinguistics

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From: Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] on behalf of Adam Hodges [Adam.Hodges at Colorado.EDU]
Sent: February-02-17 1:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [Linganth] any ling anth work on McCarthyism out there

Speaking of Richard Hofstadter's classic essay, I used his framework in a 2015 article, "The Paranoid Style in Politics: Ideological Underpinnings of the Discourse of Second Amendment Absolutism." A bit tangential to the McCarthy era per se, but here's the link:

https://works.bepress.com/adamhodges/59/

Adam


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On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Elise Kramer <elise.a.kramer at gmail.com<mailto:elise.a.kramer at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Galey,

Richard Hofstadter's classic essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," while not linguistic anthropology, might be useful nonetheless.

Best,
Elise

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Elise Kramer
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

On Feb 1, 2017 11:51 AM, "Galey Modan" <gmodan at gmail.com<mailto:gmodan at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi everyone,

Does anyone know of any ling anth/ sociolinguistics research on discourse of the McCarthy era that would be approachable for undergrads with no background in linguistics or anthropology? Trying to find relevant stuff to teach in the current historical moment...

thanks for any suggestions --

Galey Modan

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